[YWN Op-Ed by Shimon Cohen, Campaign Director of Shechita UK.] “Shechita is safe for you in the UK!” This is a remark I often hear from my American or Israeli peers. In Europe, as many readers know, ...

MPs debated banning the practice of halal and kosher slaughter in Parliament after more than 109,000 Brits signed a petition demanding improved animal welfare. While there was no vote, Monday’s ...

Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he had no plans to reintroduce legislation to lift a ban on the production of kosher meat, despite mounting criticism from Isreal and Jewish groups that it is ...

Poland is to draft new laws so that it does not have to stop slaughterhouses from producing kosher meat, a prospect that has angered the Jewish community in the country where Nazi Germany massacred ...

CSENGELE, Hungary (AP) — In a small room lined with religious texts, a Jewish rabbi demonstrates how knives are sharpened and inspected before they are put to use slitting the throats of chickens, ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has told federal meat inspectors that they should immediately shut down any slaughterhouse where they observe acts of cruelty similar to those surreptitiously ...

“Other Canadians are guaranteed access to local Canadian meat,” Richard Rabkin, managing director of the Kashruth Council of Canada, told the Toronto Star. “Why should Jewish Canadians be treated any ...